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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Photographic memories',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2019/04/17.jpg" alt="Two people scraping old paint off a wall, ostensibly in preparation for repainting" class="framed-centred-image" width="800" height="480"/>
<section id="dreams">
	<h2>Dream journal</h2>
	<p>
		While I was dreaming, I knew it was a dream, and I remember wanting to write about it.
		Something interesting happened.
		However, as soon as I awoke, it was gone.
		I don&apos;t remember the dream at all, aside from wanting to write about it.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="rest">
	<h2>Rest</h2>
	<p>
		I spent the first part of the day just relaxing.
		I figured I&apos;d get to the reading assignment and the coursework later in the day.
		I deserve a break, after my recent stress and my recent exertions.
		And if I got enough rest today, maybe I&apos;ll be able to make my trip to the $a[EUGLUG] meeting in Eugene tomorrow after all.
		My original plan on my photo-editing was to fix them in month-long batches, one batch per day.
		It&apos;d take me a couple weeks, but I wouldn&apos;t have to deal with all that tedium at once.
	</p>
	<p>
		Later though, I changed my plans.
		I&apos;m skipping the rest of the reading assignment, for now.
		I&apos;ve read everything I need for the unit assignment, and the rest seems to be review from a previous course.
		With the school censoring me, I just don&apos;t feel compelled to read every last thing they throw at me any more, y&apos;know?
		Instead, my new plan was to jump right into finishing the coursework that&apos;s due today and the coursework that&apos;s due tomorrow, finish it all, then finish the photo-editing today.
		I&apos;ve managed to streamline the process a bit, removing the most-tedious part of the task.
		Getting it all done today wasn&apos;t an issue.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			That&apos;s exactly what we need: a blocking mechanism.
			When one thread is in the state of running the critical section, it needs to be able to block all other threads that would attempt to also use that same critical section.
			If the section is run multiple times concurrently, we&apos;re likely to see incorrect results.
			On thread must finish with that section before another be allowed to run it if we are to see the correct and expected value at the end of the application run.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="prayer">
	<h2>Prayer impressions log</h2>
	<p>
		After completing my coursework, I prayed asking once more for a sign of Jesus&apos;/Elohim&apos;s existence.
		I then asked again for the censorship at the school to be ended, and said that while I&apos;ll continue dealing with it if I have to, it really isn&apos;t healthy.
		All I got in response was visions of pixel art hearts.
		Perhaps Professor Shyguy is on my mind subconsciously, or something.
		He&apos;s the only thing I really associate pixel art hearts with, both due to one of his album covers and a tattoo he&apos;s got on his forearm.
	</p>
	<p>
		I feel like I don&apos;t really have anything to pray about right now, so for my evening prayer, I only asked for a sign of the godhead&apos;s existence and asked for the censorship at the school to be lifted.
		There was nothing else to say.
		In response, all I saw was more images of SuperTux, similar to yesterday.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="photographs">
	<h2>Photo-editing</h2>
	<p>
		While going through my old photographs, I found many of them are surprisingly nice.
		I mean, they&apos;re not professional quality or anything, but they look pretty decent.
		They also brought back a lot of old memories.
	</p>
	<p>
		It seems it&apos;s been over a year now since I bought my Librem laptop.
		I bought it because the laptop I&apos;m on now was threatening to die on me.
		If I recall, it kept freezing up on me.
		Now it&apos;s mostly fine though.
		Sometimes there are cursor glitches, but those go away if I sleep cycle the machine.
		I also get terrible, though temporary, freezes if I make the mistake of telling Firefox to open up the directory containing something I just downloaded.
		For some reason, Firefox pretty much halts the entire machine for several minutes if I do that.
		So I just need not to make the mistake of doing that.
		I&apos;ve been keeping the Librem in storage for the time being until it&apos;s needed or until I have a home Internet connection.
	</p>
	<p>
		It&apos;s also been over a year since the $a[EUGLUG] members smashed up a fellow member&apos;s laptop.
		I mean, they got them to agree to having their machine smashed and they were given a better machine in return, but still, it seems pretty wasteful to me.
		I also ran across the photo of that bizarre intersection of 32nd Street and 33rd Street.
		Those streets should be parallel, and never cross.
		What a bizarre pair of streets to see cross.
		And the shattered remains of my large, glass bowel.
		It was sad to see that thing explode on me.
		It was a nice bowel to have.
		The 9/11 cake I made made an appearance as well.
		The absurdity of such a cake still amuses me.
		And there was that recent snowstorm that made things difficult, though the snow melted away enough in a few days.
	</p>
	<p>
		I still haven&apos;t managed to get ahold of the lost mobile&apos;s owner yet.
		They simply aren&apos;t responding to me.
		Cyrus gave me an idea of how to get the owner&apos;s postal address though: get into their social media account if they&apos;ve got the application installed and are signed into it.
		I&apos;ve been reluctant to do that, but maybe I will soon.
		Then I can just mail them the lost device and hope for the best.
		I mean, the address, if I can even find one, might be out of date.
		They&apos;re not making themself reachable though, so it&apos;s not like I&apos;ve had the chance to ask them how they&apos;d like to get it back.
		If it ends up sent to someone at their former address or something, that&apos;s their own fault for not checking their email.
	</p>
</section>
END
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